On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 11:28:36AM -0400, Merlin Moncure wrote:
> If you are storing big data and want to keep the overhead low, the
> first thing you need to examine is organizing your data into arrays.
> This involves tradeoffs of course and may not work but it's worth a
> shot!
That does sound interesting. However, I'm storing several hundreds or
thousands of data points (depending on the data set). How is Postgresql's
overhead when it comes to extracting one or two items from an array in
a query?
Cheers,
Peter
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